review 1: I wanted to like this, I really did, but it's too tortured, and the main character is too unyielding in her stubbornness. The child she so wants to protect is so unlikeable that I didn't even root for that, which is really horrible. I just feel like it was just gut-wrenchingly de...

review 1: Ahhh the beautiful language of this historical fiction book, I can't describe how eloquently this author puts words on a page. This is a book that must be experienced to fully understand it's magnificence.Dark Aemilia is a fictional account of the life of Aemilia Lanyer, one of s...

review 1: In language that has the feel of Elizabethan times, O'Reilly portrays Aemilia as a whore that has a short time period with Shakespeare and the effects this has on her life. Effects? She has his child Henry to raise, she pines for him and hates what he lets happen to her. Aemil...